OBJECTIVES: Cancer epidemiologists are often asked by members of the interested public about possible associations between suspected carcinogens and apparently increased small-area cancer incidence rates...
Keywords: Small area, Cancer, incidence, Simulation, chance
01/2004 | Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer
Background: We studied the incidence, classification and isotype distribution of monoclonal gammopathies and M-protein detected between 1992 and 2005 inclusive in the clinical laboratory of a healthcare district in Madrid (Spain) with an average population of 280,574 inhabitants.
Methods: Serum electrophoresis was carried out on a cellulose acetate support up until 1997, and then using capillary zone electrophoresis systems, with M-protein identification carried out by agarose gel immunofixation...
Keywords: classification of monoclonal gammopathies, incidence, M-protein isotype distribution, prevalence
02/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter